A bidirectional heuristic for maximizing the net present value of large‐scale projects subject to limited resources

We consider the scheduling of large‐scale projects to maximize the project net present value given temporal and resource constraints. The net present value objective emphasizes the financial aspects of project management. Temporal constraints between the start times of activities make it possible to handle practical problem assumptions. Scarce resources are an expression of rising cost. Since optimization techniques are not expedient to solve such problems and most heuristic methods known from literature cannot deal with general temporal constraints, we propose a new bidirectional priority‐rule based method. Scheduling activities with positive cash flows as early and activities with negative cash flows as late as possible results in a method which is completed by unscheduling techniques to cope with scarce resources. In a computational experiment, we compare the well‐known serial generation scheme where all activities are scheduled as early as possible with the proposed bidirectional approach. On the basis of a comprehensive data set known from literature containing instances with up to 1002 activities, the efficiency of the new approach is demonstrated. © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2003     

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Hilbert空间中Lipschitz拟伪压缩映像公共不动点的杂交投影算法

给出了Hilbert空间中Lipschitz拟伪压缩映像族公共不动点的一个投影算法,并利用所给出的算法证明了一个强收敛定理,扩展了参考文献[1]的结果。     

美国消防产品召回制度解析

消防产品召回制度是有效预防和消除消防产品缺陷可能引起的人身伤害和财产损失的行政管理制度。在汇总大量美国消防产品召回案例的基础上,介绍了美国消费品安全委员会对缺陷消防产品召回的基本模式、召回方式和程序等内容,以期能对建立符合我国国情的相应制度发挥一定的借鉴作用。     

高校公共体育教学质量监控体系建设的研究

教学质量监控是教学质量有力保证,也是当前高校所要加强的重要工作。通过研究发现,虽然我国高校大学公共体育教学建立了相应的质量监控体系,也取得了一定的经验,但还有许多需要改进的方面,应引起我们高度关注。     

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针对小型无人飞行器位置姿态估计问题,提出了一种基于视觉图像目标特征的相对位姿估计算法。应用Camshift算法获取目标初始位置,利用非线性尺度空间下的KAZE特征进行跟踪区域特征点提取,与源目标特征点进行匹配,得到精确的目标位置信息,实现了在图像平面内的目标快速跟踪,并得到机体轴系下无人飞行器与目标间相对位置和姿态角的估计值。对算法进行了实验验证,具有优良的跟踪性和实时性。     

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信天翁等鸟类能够不拍打翅膀而持续飞行很长的时间和距离,因为梯度风场的存在使得它们能从中获取能量,这项技术被称之为动态滑翔。临近空间也广泛存在梯度风场,如果临近空间长航时飞行器能够利用动态滑翔技术将是十分有前途的。本文首先对无动力飞机的动态滑翔问题做了假设来简化问题的描述,更便于数学操作。在这些假设下建立了无动力飞机动态滑翔的动力学模型,即三维速度空间中只有一个输入变量的常微分方程组。之后,从理论上得到了这个三维速度空间中机械能可以增加的最大范围,即能增纺锤体内部,并推导出最大的机械能增加率。最后,得出更大的风梯度、更小的阻力系数和更小的面质比更加有利于飞机获取能量的结论,该结论加深了对动态滑翔能量观点的认识,对实践有指导意义。     

有限维修能力下多级保障系统装备时变可用度评估及保障方案优化

备件库存和站点维修能力是影响备件维修周转的重要因素,制约着装备的使用效果。针对备件需求随任务阶段动态变化时装备保障方案的评估和优化问题,考虑站点维修能力对备件维修过程的影响,结合METRIC建模方法和动态排队理论,建立了有限维修能力下多级保障系统装备时变可用度评估模型。在评估模型基础之上,以保障费用为优化目标、装备可用度为约束条件,建立任务期内多级保障系统保障方案优化模型。以任务期内的最低可用度所对应的备件短缺数为观测值,分析各项资源的边际效益值,采用边际优化算法对各项资源进行优化计算。算例分析表明,评估模型能够计算多级保障系统任务期内各阶段装备可用度;保障方案优化模型和方法能够得到各项保障资源的优化配置方案。提出的模型和优化方法能够为装备保障人员制订合理的保障方案提供决策支持。     

“It would be impossible to estimate the value of these works...” Mass Production at Springfield Armory during the American Civil War

The U.S. Armory in Springfield, Massachusetts, rarely appears in Civil War histories except perhaps as an unexplained statistical wonder. By late 1863, the Armory was the largest single supplier of rifles to Union forces. Springfield Armory workers out-produced over thirty American contractors, making more Army rifles at less cost while providing contractors with gauges, inspectors, and models, even though there were significant wartime private-sector mechanical innovations. This article identifies and explains the factors in the Armory’s success, provides context on contemporary American arms production and rifle models, and argues that the Armory’s methods and performance were among the first if not the first example of mass production in American small arms manufacture. The relative brevity of the Civil War episode, and the fact that it was not repeated in any comparable way at the Armory until World War II, has obscured its significance in American manufacturing history.     

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